Pedestrian Safety

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This comprehensive report on pedestrian safety builds on the current level of knowledge of pedestrian safety countermeasures by identifying the most effective advanced technology and intelligent transportation systems, such as automated pedestrian detection and warning systems (infrastructure-based and vehicle-based), road design, and vehicle structural design improvements, that could potentially mitigate the crash forces on pedestrians in the event of a crash. The report also includes recommendations on how new technological developments could be incorporated into educational and enforcement efforts and how they could be integrated into national design guidelines developed. Charts and tables.For example, the 2001 Honda Civic was designed with a three-inch gap between
the hood and engine block to cushion impact and bendable ... and Other
Vulnerable Road Users Before and in the Event of a Collision with a Motor
Vehicle and Amending Council Directive 70/156/EEC. http://eur-lex.europa.eu/
LexUriServ/site/en/oj/2003/l_321/l_32120031206en00150025.pdf 24 National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Vehicle Backover Avoidance Study,
August 15, 2008 25.

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Pedestrian Safety

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Barry Leonard

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DIANE Publishing - 2010-08

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